Canonical Maps from Spaces of Higher Complex Structures to Hitchin Components

MaRDI QIDQ6396145zbMATH OpenFDO

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Publication date 10 April 2022

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General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) 2-dimensional topology (including mapping class groups of surfaces, Teichmüller theory, curve complexes, etc.) (57K20) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50)

Abstract: For $S$ a closed surface of genus $ggeq2$, we construct a canonical diffeomorphism from the degree $3$ Fock-Thomas space $mathcal{T}^3(S)$ of higher complex structures to the $extSL(3,mathbbR)$ Hitchin component. Our construction is equivariant with respect to natural actions of the mapping class group $extMod(S)$. For all $ngeq3$, we show that the Fock-Thomas space $mathcal{T}^n(S)$ has a canonical vector bundle structure over Teichm"uller space. We then construct a $extMod(S)$-equivariant bundle isomorphism from $mathcal{T}^n(S)$ to a sub-bundle of the restriction of the tangent bundle of the $extPSL(n,mathbbR)$ Hitchin component to the Fuchsian locus. As consequences, we prove that the higher degree moduli space of complex structures is a bundle over the moduli space of Riemann surfaces and that the action of $extMod(S)$ on $mathcal{T}^n(S)$ is a proper action by holomorphic automorphisms with respect to a canonical complex structure. The core of our approach is a careful analysis of higher degree diffeomorphism groups.

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